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What happens to Roe v. Wade without Ruth Bader Ginsburg?
Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg died on Friday at age 87
September 18, 2020
September 18, 2020
Biden took credit for putting RBG, Kagan and Sotomayor on the Supreme Court. But he left out Clarence Thomas.
It struck many viewers as tone-deaf
February 7, 2020
February 7, 2020
The Supreme Court will review the ruling on a restrictive Louisiana abortion law
Clinic owners said the effect of the law would be to close most of the state’s abortion clinics, leaving only one doctor eligible to perform the procedure
October 4, 2019
October 4, 2019
Planned Parenthood opens massive new clinic in southern Illinois to meet surging demand from Missouri
The 18,000-square-foot Fairview Heights facility will be able to accommodate several thousand patients a year
October 4, 2019
October 4, 2019
‘There is no international right to an abortion’: U.S. joins coalition of 19 nations, including Saudi Arabia and Russia
The coalition also seeks to strike terms such as ‘sexual and reproductive health’ from U.N. documents
September 25, 2019
September 25, 2019
States are spending millions of dollars on abortion restrictions — in legal fees for the other side
When laws that severely limit or prohibit abortion are thrown out in court, the state has to pay abortion advocates’ legal expenses
September 24, 2019
September 24, 2019
California colleges could soon be required to offer the abortion pill. In conservative communities like this one, activists are pushing back.
Bakersfield, Calif., is known as ‘California’s final fortress of conservative thought’
September 22, 2019
September 22, 2019
The abortion rate in America falls to lowest level since Roe v. Wade
A new Guttmacher Institute report released on Wednesday outlines dramatic changes in the abortion landscape
September 18, 2019
September 18, 2019
White nationalists have long aligned themselves with the antiabortion movement. Here’s how.
They have latched onto antiabortion extremism in an attempt to bolster white population growth, while aiming to restrict the growth of nonwhite populations
This state could become a ‘contraceptive desert’: Trump’s new ‘gag rule’ goes far beyond Planned Parenthood
Why 15 of the 20 abortion clinics here are at high risk of shutting down